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Softly, Softly

1966-01-05 · 50 min / episode · ★ 7.5

Drama · Crime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

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Troy Kennedy Martin
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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Ended

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